Rock Allegiance Tour: Volbeat, HIM & All That Remains at The Midland by AMC
Orange Box Look for a new Orange Box…somewhere else. Chef Miguel Sanchez – currently cooking at Aixois – wanted to have lunch this afternoon at the Orange Box, a lunch-only venue at 2700 Jarboe. It was closed. “Does anyone know the story?” he posted on Facebook. Well…yes. The Fast Pitch tracked down chef Scott Welsch, the caterer who opened the…
Big Chief. Interscope signed Chief Keef to a big contract last year, when he was just 17 years old. His official debut recently arrived – it’s called Finally Rich; pity that Keef had to wait so long for his millions – and it’s a hard-ass dispatch from the increasingly scary streets of Keef’s hometown of Chicago. At a time when…
Jessica Amaya The Love Language Don’t sleep on the new Love Language album, Ruby Red. It’s full of gorgeous, heady baroque-rock songs with the kind of melodies you can really cozy up to. Among other influences, I’m hearing Broken Social Scene, Burt Bacharach, Peter Bjorn and John, and John Hughes soundtracks. That mélange could easily come across as scattershot and…
Bruce Mathews Ella’s killer has been caught. The mystery over who shot and killed Ella, the tame doe that lived her whole life at Elmwood Cemetery, appears to be solved. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced this morning that Phoenix M. Vankirk, 19, has been cited by the Missouri Department of Conservation for taking a deer out of season….
Heartfelt Anarchy The Riot Room’s patio stage at The Pitch Music Showcase in early August was a nice crash course in local hip-hop talent, and this bill (which includes two overlaps in Reach and Stik Figa) is just about as solid. If the gangsta style of Chief Keef (in town Saturday at the Uptown) isn’t your flavor of rap, the…
Facebook: Kansas City Irish Fest There’s whiskey and Boulevard beer tasting this weekend at Crown Center. Good music and cold beer are great starts for any day. Find both at the Kansas City Irish Fest, which runs today through Sunday. There are whiskey tastings, Sheridan’s custard, Scotch eggs, and plenty more to munch on as you walk through the craft…
If you were to tell David Lowery that his new movie Ain’t Them Bodies Saints reminds you of Terrence Malick’s Badlands or The Tree of Life, he’d probably take it as a compliment. During a 17-minute phone conversation about the film, which opens Friday in Kansas City, Lowery mentioned several independent or ’70s-made movies – like Badlands and Kansas City native…
Tom Schweich thinks Kansas City is hiding something Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich in July fired off a letter to Kansas City Mayor Sly James, offering among other things to carry out an audit of the city’s beleaguered water department. Schweich said he’d gotten so many complaints from residents about how poorly run the department was that it might be worth…
Angela C. Bond The rehabilitated Corner Restaurant now serves only breakfast and lunch. One week ago, Michael Pfeifer and Dawn Slaughter, the owners of the reincarnated Corner Restaurant in Westport (4059 Broadway) made a tough decision: no more dinners. Breakfast and lunch business was good at the four-month-old historic hipster hangout, but the evening meal wasn’t catching on. “We just…
The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City is a chief advocate, and so far primary funder, of an upcoming sales-tax measure in Jackson County to raise money for medical translational research. The Civic Council on August 10 cut a $100,000 check to the Committee for Research Treatments and Cures, which reflects almost all the money the committee has received, according…
Virtually ageless. Noise rock and punk music have been bleeding into each other at a more accelerated pace in recent years, and Los Angeles duo No Age is among the leading practitioners of the trend. Their new, fourth album, An Object, is by turns hazily experimental and blisteringly angular. It’s maybe a little quieter than previous albums but no great…
Facebook: Park Chop Suey The home of the St. Paul – Missouri’s sandwich representative. I’ve always thought the official state sandwich should have to be made with the official state bird. But I’ll admit, I’ve never tasted the Eastern Bluebird (Missouri) or Western Meadowlark (Kansas). Zagat has a more reasonable approach to its choice of 50 sandwiches to represent the…
Asheer Akram has used the word “nightmare” more than once the past few minutes. He shakes his head. This project, he tells me, is “the worst idea I ever had.” It’s late August, and I’ve met up with Akram and some of his many collaborators in a garage at 18th Street and Forest. Belger Cartage has provided this indoor space…
Saturday, September 7 Main Street Day, sportkc.org. Saturday, September 14 The Color Run 5k, downtown Lawrence, thecolorrun.com/Lawrence Friday, September 20 Firefly Run 5k, Kemper Arena, 8 p.m., fireflyrun.com/locations/kansas-city/ Sunday, September 22 Panera Bread Diabetes Dash for Life 5k, diabetesdashforlife.com Saturday, September 28 Pony Express 5k/10k, Pony Express Museum, St. Joseph Saturday, September 28 The Women’s Clinic of Kansas City Run/Walk…
Performance days and showtimes vary. Call or see theater websites for more information. August 30-September 28 The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Copaken Stage, 816-235-2700, kcrep.org September 3-13 Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Kansas City Actors Theatre, at City Stage Theatre, 816-235-6222, kcactors.org September 4-29 Venus in Fur, Unicorn Theatre, 816-531-7529, unicorntheatre.org September 7-13 Miss Saigon,…
Brass soaring over a complex rhythm line or coating a sinuous, full-bodied sax. Intricate solos flying through unconventional time. It’s unusual to find original jazz compositions as compelling and entertaining as those Ryan Heinlein has written for the Project H. It’s also unusual to find a trombone in a small jazz ensemble in KC these days. But Heinlein’s trombone, Clint…
Marva Whitney, one of the greatest soul singers to come out of Kansas City, died of complications from pneumonia last December. Whitney was best-known for her association with James Brown — she was a member of his James Brown Revue and later released solo records for Brown’s King Records. Brown, sometimes known as Soul Brother No. 1, used to call…
Steely Dan Inside jokes are as much a part of the Steely Dan legacy as impeccable production values and jazz fusion, and the group’s core — Donald Fagen and Walter Becker — has accordingly titled the current U.S. tour “Mood Swings: 8 Days to Pancake Day.” But judging by recent set lists, this Midland show shouldn’t be too terribly different…
September 5 | Thursday Festivals The American Royal opens | Through November 16 Greater Kansas City Home Show Fall Edition | Overland Park Convention Center, through September 8 6 | Friday Music Asphalt Orchestra | Lied Center, Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Dread Zepplin with the Living Deads | Knuckleheads, 9 p.m. Samantha Fish | VooDoo Lounge, 8 p.m. Free Happy-Hour Concert…
jimmycsays.com Jim Fitzpatrick: former newspaper editor, now political operative Former Kansas City Star newsman Jim Fitzpatrick has registered a campaign committee to oppose a November 5 ballot measure in Jackson County to increase sales taxes for translational medical research. The Committee to Stop a Bad Cure, as Fitzpatrick has dubbed his organization, is the first local committee going up against…
Stealing a wallet in a courtroom is a dumb idea. Criminal pro tip: If you’re going to steal somebody’s wallet and use their credit cards to totally splurge at Kmart, make sure your victim isn’t a defense attorney and that the scene of the crime isn’t a courtroom. Theresa Quest, 51, of Leavenworth, could have used this advice. Quest pleaded…
Name: Kelly Tomlinson Occupation: Designer at Cremalab Hometown: Phoenix Current neighborhood: Technically the Plaza, but I spend most of my life in the Crossroads. What I do (in 140 characters): Designer focused on UI, UX and branding. Also working on a couple of startups of my own. What’s your addiction? Chipotle. Let’s be honest. What’s your game? Cards Against Humanity…
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